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TYPE JUSTIFYING MACHINE.

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TYPE JUSTIFYING MACHINE. No. 250,555. Patented Dec. 6,1881.

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. WILLIAM A. LORENZ, or BROOKLYN, AND LOUIS K. JOHNSON, or NEW I YORK, N. Y.

TYPE-JUSTIFYING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 250,555, dated December 6, 1881. Application filed February 12, 1878. Renewed May 28, 1881. (Model) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM A. LORENZ, ofthe city of Brooklyn and State ofNewYork, and Lows K. J OHNSON, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Type-Justifying Machines, of which the following isa full,true, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of our invention is to produce a machine by means of which a row of type may be readily justified and made up in column, and is especially useful in connection with a type-setting machine in which'a continuous row of type passes to the justifying operator. This row of type has to be divided into lines of the proper length, justified by the insertion of the proper spaces, and deposited in the galley in column, and in what is known as leaded matter leads are inserted between adjacent lines before it is made up in column. By means of our apparatus we render it possible for the operator to very rapidly and easily justify such a line of type and make it up in column, while at the same time suitable leads are inserted between adjacent lines of the type as they are made up in column.

Our machine consists, genenilly, in a removable galley, into which thejustified line of type is subsequently caused to enter, and a rule, against which the line is justified, which rule can be automatically moved out of the way, thereby allowing the passage of the justified line of type into the galley. The type itself isjnstified between two shoulders orabutments on the face of said rule, which form, with the rule, the composing-stick. A page of leads is placed in our machine, and is so combined with elevating mechanism that one or more oftheseleuds are cut ott'from the end of the page of leads as each line of type is justified and pushed into the receiving-galley.

Ourinvention willbe clearly understood from the drawings, of which there are five sheets.

' Figure 1 represents, generally, a perspective elevation of our apparatus. Fig. 2 represents a vertical section through the same, taken on the line 00 as, Fig. 4.. Fig. 3 represents another vertical section through the same, on the line gjy, Fig. 4. Fig. 4 represents a plan of our apparatus with the receiving-galley removed. Fig. 5 represents a detailed view of the rule and the lead-elevating mechanism. Fig. 6 represents a detailed view of the same, showing more in detail the channeled back plate. Fig. 7 represents a cross-section through Fig. 6, on the line 2 2. Fig. 8 is a plan view, showing the upper end of the galley more in detail.

Our apparatus consists, generally, of a bedplate, A, supported at an angle on a pedestal, P. The bed-plate Asupports a rule for receiving the line of type which comes from the setter, and is provided with mechanism (not here shown) for the support of the line in its passage to this apparatus. The general features of this type-supporting mechanism are shown in the application for a patent filed by Louis K. Johnson and Charles D. Hughes for typejustifying machines on the 21st day of January, 1878, upon which machine the present apparatus is an improvement.

Forming part of the bed-plate A is a series of ways or slides, '10. Through the three upper ways and the upper end of the bed-plate is cut a series of holes through, which slide the two rods 1'. Attached to the upperend of these rods is the pusher S, which is slotted and channeled as described in the previous application, and is used for the same purpose. Between the two middle ways to w the bed-plate is cut through at W, Fig. 4., allowing the movement of a cross-head, R, attached to the two rods 1'. This cross-head is actuated by means of the slotted upper arm, t of the bell-crank j, which bell-crank is actuated by means of the link I and treadle T, which treadle is raised by means of the coiled spring U. The bell-crank j is pivoted in the hanger S. It is therefore plain that the throwing down of the treadle T will throw down the arm 15 of the bell-crank j, which acts on a roller or pin in the cross-head R, and will also throw down the pusher S and force the justified line into the type-galley.

Supported on the bed-plate A, between the way 10 and the adjustable front plate, h, and passing through the end of the frame, is the series of leads M, which leads are forced forward against the end plate of the machine by afollower-bar, N. This follower Nis actuated by means of the rod 121, to which is attached the cord and weightf, which cord and weight, through the intervention of a pulley supported on the frame A, forces the follower forward and causes the end lead of the series M to rest against the front plate, h, of the ma chine. This rod in is provided with the handle 0, by means of which it can be drawn down out of the way of the page of leads for the purpose of replenishing said page.

Set in the lower part of the lead-supporting channel is the locking-spring s, which is so arranged that when thefollowerNis drawn down against the way 10 the spring 8, Fig. 3, will spring up behind it and preventthe weight f from forcing forward the follower N until said spring 8 has been forced down out of its way, which may be done by pressing upon thelower one of the series of leads, whose foot rests against the top of said spring, whereby said springniay be depressed and the follower N freed.

Supported by a dovetailed slide, 1), Fig. 4, is the lead-supporting bar a, which is adjustable in the slot t, whereby leads of different widths may he used in themachine. The leads are supported between the fixed bar (1 and the adjustable bar a, and are forced forward by the follower N against the front plate of the machine, as has been described. This follower N has an overhanging arm, n, allowing of the adjustment of the lead-supporting bar a under this overhanging arm n ot the follower N.

Bearing against a roller or pin attached to the cross-head R is the lever is, Fig. 2, the upper end of which, it, bears against such roller or pin. The lower arm of said bent lever 70, which approaches a bell-crank in shape, and which is pivoted on the hanger S, operates a risingand falling frame,latheymrpose of which is to elevate the end lead of the series M between the lines of justified type. This frame It slides in the end plate, f, of the machine, and is supported against such plate by means of the guides (1 attached to said plate, Fig. 6. Also attached to said platef is the buffer B, to prevent the jar due to the sudden descent of h. Said plate his raised and lowered by means of the roller or pin 7L2, which is straddled by the slotted end of the arm 7c. The upper part of the slotted plate h consists of a series .of vertical arms, 1/, between which the plate is cut away, as is clearly shown in Fig. 6.

Forming part of the end plate h, which is a continuation of the end plate f, are the blocks or plates a against which blocks the page of leadsrests, being forced againstit by the weight and cord f, as described. The end plate It is supported on two rods, d, (shown clearly in Fig. 2,) which rods pass through theend of the frame A and have attached to their ends two nuts, q and g, by means of which the rods d and the plate It can be adjusted. One of the nuts, q, is set in a slot or channel, 3' in the frame A. The plate h is thus adjusted by means of the two rods d and their adjustingnuts. It is evident that the page of leads will advance more and more over the elevating-arms 'u of the plate It as the said plate h is adjusted away from the frame A, and if it is adjusted far enough from the machine two of the page of leads will be over these armsv and two leads will be elevated by them. This adjustment, therefore, allows of the use of leads of different thicknesses, or allows of the elevation oftwo thin leads at the same time.

Attached to the plate It by means of the arm 1 is the adjustable rod 1*, supporting the adjustable rule B, Fig. 5. This rule is adjustable endwise in its support 9" by means of the clamp d and set-screw e, as is morefully shown in the previous application, above referred to. Attached also to the end of the arm 0 is the arm 27, which supports the type in their passage into the receiving-galley and prevents their falling over sidewise. The upper face of the adjustable plate h is provided with the lip 6 which extends between the fixed blocks or plates a for the purpose of supporting the type in their passage over and past the channel through which the elevating-plate h rises.

This lip 0 and the upper surface of h is a little higher than the surface 0 of the frame A, which is a continuation of the bottom of the galley G.

Supported on the ways 20, and having its surface in the same plane as the surface 0 of the end of the frame A, is the galley G, which is supported by means of the clamp c and a slotted adjustable block, b, to which the galley G is attached by means ot'a pin, p,Fig.2. Resting within this galley is the bar B, supported on the pin 19, Fig. 1, and clamped, also, by the clamp 0. On this bar B, sliding in the galley, is the supporting-slide V. These parts have been more fully described in the previous application. The block b is adjusted in the channel g by means of the slide as has also been previously described, and is provided with the slot or notch 8 into which the end of the rule It enters and in which it is supported. By this arrangement the rule is forced to rise and sink in the same plane, and the danger (which might arise from the sagging of the free end of the rule)of the justified line being caught and up set by the rising lead is avoided. The block b and pusher Sare correspondingly slotted and channeled, as has been previously described.

Theoperation of the machine can nowbe un derstood. The apparatus is first adjusted for thereceptionofacolumn of the desired width,as

has been describedin the previous application,

and a page of leads of the desired length (or width of column) is placed in the apparatus. This is done by removing the galley G,with its bar B, when the follower N may be drawn down till caught by the spring s, when the leads can be placed in position between the follower N and the adjustable plate h. Then, by pressing on the lower lead of the series, the weight f forces forward the follower N and causes the leads to rest against the end plate h. Then, the galley having been put in position and properly adjusted for the reception of a column of the desired width, as has been described in the previous application, a row of type sufficient to form a line isjustified on the rule R between the adjustable block b and the fixed plate m Fig. 4. Then, by pressing upon the treadle T, the arm kis thrown up, elevating the sliding plate It and so many leads as may be in position over it. and elevating the rule R simultaneously. The machine is so constructed that this operation takes place before the pusher S has begun to act upon the line of type. As the plate It rises it forces upward the leads which may be over the arms 11, and these leads take the place of the rule R,which is simultaneously being elevated out of the way and forms a continuous support for the type, as is shown clearly in Fig. 7. As soon as the end lead has been raised sufficiently to be free of the surface 6 of the frameA the pusher S begins to act against the line of type, and thereby forces such line, together with the lead which has been inserted behind it under the ru'le B, into the galley. By reason that the plane of the surface 6 of the end plate h is above the surface 0 of the frame A, the type are pushed into the receiving-galley without falling into the channel through which thelead has been elevated,and without catching against the corner of the surface 6, which might happen were it not for this provision. On releasing the treadle the rule It once more sinks to its position above the type in the galley, and prevents their falling forward toward the pusher. The side arm, 1;, attached to the plate h, serves to prevent the end type of a line which is being put in the galley from falling sidewise toward the rod 1" while said line is being pushed into the receiving-galley, as shown in Figs. 6 and 8.

It will be observed that the rule It rises and falls constantly parallel to itself. By this means all danger of upsetting the type is avoided. This rule isinade somewhat thicker than heretofore, so as to more than occupy thespace between the lines of type which is subsequently filled by the leads K, Fig. 2.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In an apparatus for cutting oft'leads from the end of a page of such leads, a lead-elevating plate provided with arms, which arms cmbrace an adjustable surface, against which the page of leads is advanced,thereby allowing of the elevation of leads of different thickness,or of two leads at the same time, substantially as described.

2. In a type-justifying machine, the combination ofa guard, 21, adapted to enter the space left vacant by the rule when elevated, with the leadelevator, thereby preventing the lateral falling of the type, substantially as described.

3. In a typejustifying machine,a justifyingrule supported only at one end, the free end being adapted to enter a nick or notch in a support-block, for the purpose of supporting said free end and regulating its movement, substantial] y as described.

WM. S. BEAMAN, WM. J. SAWYER. 

